Attention Students: Final grades now online. Have a great summer!

Professor: Dr. Mauro Giavalisco

Office: 520 Graduate Research Tower
Phone: 545-4767
Email: mauro@astro.umass.edu
Office Hours: M/W 1:30 - 2:30 or by appointment

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Teaching Assistant: Mr. Hansung B. Gim

Office: 517/F Graduate Research Tower
Phone: 545-3026
Email: hgim@astro.umass.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

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Course Information:

• Textbook: Stars and Galaxies, 5th Edition, by Michael A. Seeds

• Course Overview and Philosophy
  
• Syllabus
  
• Requirements
  
• Class Notes and Assigned Reading
  
• Homeworks
  
• Quizzes
  
• Exams
  
• Grades of Homeworks, Quizzes and Exams
  

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Interesting Astronomical Sites:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Space Telescope Public Information
• Images of Nebulae and Galaxies
• Views of the Solar System
• Welcome to the Planets
• Sky and Telescope: Weekly News Bulletin
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Space shuttle and artificial satellite visibility
• Mars Pathfinder
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Cassini mission to Saturn
• Finding planets around other stars
• Heavens Above! (satellite visibility)
• Space Weather (aurorae, meteors, etc.)
• Weather:
  • Local Weather Report
  • Local Radar Animation
  • Northeast U.S. Infrared Satellite Image
  • Today's GMS-5 Satellite Images (Colorized)
  • Current Global Weather Movies
  • EPA Global Warming page
  • El Niño Animation

• UMass Astronomy Projects
  • UMASS Astronomy Home Page
  • Two Micron All Sky Survey Project (2MASS)
  • Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)
  • Large Millimeter Telescope Project
  • Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
  • Infrared/Optical Telescope Array (IOTA)

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